Monday, April 25, 2011

The Boy Who Cried, "Nessy!"

This is my contribution to a promotional book for TR!CKSTER, a brand-spanking new convention for comic creators. TR!CKSTER is the brainchild of Pixar story artists Ted Mathot and Scott Morse. What SDCC is for fans who want to get a sneak-peak at the latest block-busting summer tentpole, TR!CKSTER will be for artists, filmmakers, and comic creators who are more interested in learning how to get their own original work published/distributed.

Scott and Ted's assignment for the promotional book was to illustrate your own version of the archetypal trickster character. My thoughts immediately turned to the boy who cried wolf, but Plesiosaurs are so much more fun to draw than wolves...

To complete the day's dinosaurian schenanigans, we had a screening of Jurassic Park at work tonight. As you can see below, it was a B.Y.O.D. (bring your own dinosaur) event.

The gate was made by my buddy Sean Feeley for his jeep to come crashing through during the Red Bull Soap Box Derby. Sean's team is defending the championship title they won last year with their Brutal Legend van.

Rooney- The comic will be available along with other short stories from Pixar artists in a graphic novel called "Afterworks III", which will debut at TR!CKSTER and hit the shelves later in the Summer.

Sam- Bigfoot could definitely be a trickster, depending on how you play him. In my mind, the kid is the trickster in this case, having inadvertently fooled Nessy into believing he was a fellow Plesiosaur.

Hey Austin, no, I work for Disney Consumer Products, so I come to Pixar when I work on character art for various projects, i was there a lot for Cars 2 and now new things.Looking forward to meet you :)